Impact Report 2023-24

Hertfordshire Mind Network delivers mental health services across Hertfordshire from 8 wellbeing centres. In 2023-24, 15,919 people accessed services including 7,032 adults and 8,887 children and young people. The Nightlight crisis service answered 8,042 helpline calls; 1,298 people accessed crisis services; 3,616 people attended training; and 421 refugees and asylum seekers were supported. Total income was £5.9m.

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📋About

Nightlight crisis helpline, cafés and crisis house; community support; housing support; domestic abuse service; Flourish refugee support; peer support; counselling and talking therapies; Hertswise dementia service; children and young people's services (With Youth); workplace mental health training; Herts Haven Cafés Custom geography from upload: Hertfordshire

📊Key Metrics

15,919 people accessed services in 2023-24 — 7,032 adults and 8,887 children and young people Key Metric 1
8,042 Nightlight crisis helpline calls answered; 1,298 people accessed crisis services Key Metric 2
3,616 people trained across 307 sessions; 421 refugees and asylum seekers supported through Flourish service Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 7,709 community support sessions provided; 2,876 peer support sessions; 4,008 talking therapies sessions; 126 new mums supported through perinatal service
  • 7,585 young people attended emotional wellbeing workshops in schools; 745 children accessed Lumi Nova digital therapy; 1,178 children and young people supported
  • 5,946 attendances at Flourish refugee peer support groups; 11,660 group attendances in Hertswise dementia partnership; total income £5.9m; fundraising raised £140,688

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2026 Enhanced

Impact — Winter 2026

Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on charitable activities including £1,079,000 on research, £1,366,000 on EB Community Support, £943,000 on public education, £270,000 on EB healthcare and £185,000 on respite breaks
Key Metric 1
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling fans and sheepskin liners; 2 new holiday homes purchased in 2025 with over 700 guests enjoying holiday homes; £34,000 raised through 2025 winter 'The Longest Night' appeal
Key Metric 2
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed mapping global research priorities for all four main EB forms
Key Metric 3
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2025

22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 1
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 2
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
Key Metric 3
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
2025 Enhanced

Our Impact 2024-25

3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 2
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to achieve this
Key Metric 3
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence